Bonds are off to a rough start in 2022. The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index, the proxy for core US bonds, has declined nearly 6% in the first three months of 2022. This loss is compounded by those from 2021, when the index returned -1.5%...
The Russia-Ukraine war is a humanitarian disaster. While this latest insight focuses on the impact of the war on global economies and markets, in hopes for a resolution to this humanitarian crisis, be reminded of this quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt: “More than an end...
The one thing that is certain when geopolitical events take hold is that uncertainty runs rife, and the one thing that investors and the markets don’t like is uncertainty....
2021 delivered another stellar year in US stock markets. The S&P 500 index, a commonly used benchmark to measure the US stock market, generated 26.9% excluding dividends....
Inflation remains a topic of concern in 2021 as the prices of goods and services have continued to increase....
A safe haven during the 2020 pandemic, gold rose 20.9% and outperformed the S&P 500 index which gained 18.7%....
If you know anyone who is in the market for a home, then you have likely heard anecdotes on how they were outbid multiple times with offers higher than the asking price....
Inflation remains a topic of concern in 2021. There are two key measures of inflation, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) preferred measure of Core Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE)...
Over the last year shares of movie theater company AMC Entertainment holdings, Inc. (AMC) and a retail video game store GameStop Corp. (GME) have soared...
Last year, we visited the topic of higher taxes and the impact on markets during the election season. In 2021, with various proposed tax increases to fund the American Jobs Act and the American Families Plan, we thought it might be a good time to...